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A Model of Free Will for Artificial Entities

Authors:
Eric Sanchis

Keywords: free will; artificial entities; three-step decisionnal process; synthetic property.

Abstract:
The impression of free will is the feeling according to which our choices are neither imposed from our inside nor from outside. It is the sense we are the ultimate cause of our acts. In direct opposition with the universal determinism, the existence of free will continues to be discussed. In this paper, free will is linked to a decisional mechanism: an agent is provided with free will if having performed a predictable choice C, it can immediately perform another choice C’ in a random way. The intangible “feeling” of free will is replaced by a decision-making process including a predictable decision-making process immediately followed by an unpredictable decisional one.

Pages: 57 to 62

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: February 18, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4197

ISBN: 978-1-61208-609-5

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from February 18, 2018 to February 22, 2018